Dr. Eric Bender

And then they start looping.

They'll use the word looping on this or they'll have ruminations about medication.

So it depends on what they're dealing with, but that can impact the therapy and the treatment itself.

Well, I, I, I correct because I think it can reassure, it can not reassure is the wrong word.

It can educate people.

So when somebody says, I don't know, maybe I have a mania, I'll say, I,

Tell me why you think that."

And they'll say, okay, in psychiatry, there's actually a real strict list of criteria for what mania means.

I know we use it colloquially in songs or in whatever to say you're going back and forth, but that's actually not what mania is.

Mania is when for five to seven days, you've been awake for days at a time because you have increased energy.

You might be taking on more activities and your behavior might be unusual compared to what it is.

You might be having sex with multiple people or starting to gamble or your finances, you made 200 transactions.

So you might be doing things that are different and you're grandiose and you think you're going to change the world and you're going to meet God and create a new language.

Those are criteria for mania.

They're like, oh, I don't have those.

I think so.

I think it depends.

If more and more people are like, oh, I'm totally manic, then- Like PTSD is a common one these days.

Yeah.

I do think that's worth having some corrective measures taken.